2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8
# 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8

Group 8 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Denmark, Romania, Ukraine, Finland, Northern Ireland, and Malta. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 11 December 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 6 September 2019 and 13 October 2020. Under the original format, the group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the play-offs.

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the qualifying group stage would be extended and end on 17 November 2020, while the play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in November 2020, would be cancelled. Instead, the group winners and the five best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for the final tournament.

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Denmark | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 9 | +12 | 26 | Final tournament | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 5–1 |
| 2 | Romania | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 7 | +15 | 20 | Final tournament | 1–1 | — | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 |
| 3 | Ukraine | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 11 | +6 | 16 | | 2–3 | 1–0 | — | 0–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 |
| 4 | Finland | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 13 | | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 4–0 |
| 5 | Northern Ireland | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 9 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | — | 0–0 |
| 6 | Malta | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 30 | −26 | 1 | | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — |

## Matches

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

## Goalscorers

There were 85 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.83 goals per match.

7 goals

* Andreas Skov Olsen

5 goals

* Valentin Mihăilă

3 goals

* Onni Valakari
* Benjamin Källman
* Paul O'Neill
* Dennis Man
* Mykola Kukharevych

2 goals

* Jacob Bruun Larsen
* Jens Odgaard
* Victor Jensen
* Nikolai Laursen
* Mikael Soisalo
* Omar Elouni
* Andrei Ciobanu
* Adrian Petre
* Valentin Costache
* Nazariy Rusyn
* Danylo Sikan
* Heorhiy Tsitaishvili

1 goal

* Mikkel Damsgaard
* Emil Riis Jakobsen
* Jesper Lindstrøm
* Nikolas Nartey
* Victor Nelsson
* Andreas Poulsen
* Jasin-Amin Assehnoun
* Marcus Forss
* Kaan Kairinen
* Timo Stavitski
* Naatan Skyttä
* Ayrton Attard
* Nicholas Pulis
* Jake Dunwoody
* Ross Larkin
* David Parkhouse
* Lewis Thompson
* Tudor Băluță
* Florinel Coman
* George Ganea
* Denis Haruț
* Olimpiu Moruțan
* Alexandru Mățan
* Darius Olaru
* Vladyslav Babohlo
* Serhiy Buletsa
* Yevhen Isayenko
* Yukhym Konoplya
* Bohdan Lyednyev
* Bogdan Milovanov
* Illya Shevtsov
* Dmytro Topalov

1 own goal

* Juho Hyvärinen (against Romania)
* Andreas Vella (against Finland)
